From a variety of NASA sources, including the STS-113 press kit and agency interviews with the crew, here is a summary of what's in store for Flight Day 2.
Major tasks for the day: The ergometer will be set up early in the day to support exercise for International Space Station crewmembers.
Checkout of two suits on shuttle to be used by STS-113 spacewalkers and other spacewalk setup and reconfiguration tasks will be performed in support of 11A.
The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS) and Orbital Space Vision System (OSVS) will be checked out.
Rendezvous activities including rendezvous tools setup and checkout, handheld laser checkout, centerline camera installation and Orbiter Docking System ring extension will be performed before docking with the ISS.
Rendezvous burns will be performed.
Sequential Still Video will be set up, if not already from Flight Day 1.
Status of powered payloads will be verified.
NASA TV Schedule for Flight Day 2
Orbit Item EST10 ENDEAVOUR CREW WAKE UP (begins FD 2) 09:50 AM 12 EMU CHECKOUT 01:20 PM12 RMS POWERUP 01:30 PM13 RMS CHECKOUT 01:45 PM13 RMS PAYLOAD BAY SURVEY 02:30 PM15 MISSION STATUS BRIEFING 05:30 PM (time subject to change)15 CENTERLINE CAMERA MOUNT 05:50 PM16 ODS RING EXTENSION 06:20 PM18 RENDEZVOUS TOOL CHECKOUT 07:50 PM17 USA TODAY / ASSOCIATED PRESS - 07:55 PM AP RADIO NETWORK20 ENDEAVOUR CREW SLEEP BEGINS 12:20 AM
Pilot Paul Lockhart describes the general goals for this mission:
"We have quite a few important pieces of hardware that we have to bring up, but our most critical item that we're going to be bringing up are the next Expedition crew that's going to be up in space and replacing the Expedition Five crew there. So we're bringing up Expedition Six and bringing back Expedition Five.
"Beyond that we have a very large piece of the space station that we have to bring up and attach, and that's called the P1 Truss -- "P" stands for the Port 1 Truss -- and so it's a part of the major structure that's going to lay perpendicular to the long axis of the space station."
In other words if you look at the space station head on our piece will be running from side to side, and it's going to be on the port, on the left side there, and it's going to be attached to what is called the S0 truss, which forms the backbone of this section."
Expedition Six science officer Don Pettit talks about flying in space:
"I consider myself an explorer. And you can explore in many different ways, whether it's under the stage of a microscope or running off in a laboratory and making other measurements. I've been an explorer for as long as I can remember -- exploring space is just one aspect of that. It's something that I've been interested in since I was a little kid, and now I'm doing it, or going to do it."
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